arXiv Machine Learning By Ibne Farabi Shihab, Adria Binte Habib

The Cost of Adaptivity: Matching Lower Bounds Across Learning Problems

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arXiv:2608. 08826v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adaptive procedures must work without nuisance information an oracle may use, such as a gradient scale or smoothness index, and robust procedures may have to answer queries whose coordinate and inspection time are chosen only after the data are seen.

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